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This is Dream Color Scheme, a collection of things I love or otherwise feel compelled to document.

One of my favorite gut reactions in life is the feeling of wanting to eat/wear/paint the color palette of something marvelous I’ve just seen. This blog is named after those moments (and so is my newsletter.)

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I’m trying to be more “free” with making art. By that I think I just mean putting whatever’s sparking my mind on paper rather than letting the opportunity slip away. @DreamColorScheme (on Instagram at least) started out as a series of fashion illustrations, but I want to set it free a little. To house all kinds of ideas and inspirations.

One of the things I love about fashion illustrators—and I suppose illustrators/artists in general—is that they tend to have their own distinct styles. When I first started casually doing fashion sketches two years ago, all I wanted was to develop my own style. But I thought: To get there, I’d have to experiment and keep my mind open. This means playing with different materials…which naturally lead to different levels of detail, texture, etc. Over time, […]

Short and sweet #dreamcolorscheme o’clock tonight (Also tracking on Twitter 😉 )… 1. Geometric things!!! by illustrator and animator James Gilleard Little geometrics pic.twitter.com/Dwm0MIjC5n — James Gilleard (@jgilleard) October 19, 2016 more geometric things pic.twitter.com/V0eHxAY9Xa — James Gilleard (@jgilleard) November 1, 2016 more pic.twitter.com/BNI5NjdSm0 — James Gilleard (@jgilleard) November 2, 2016 2. This sublime renovated apartment in the Osborne… I believe this is the unit, sold for $3,250,000 (22.6% below asking) in 2014. What a […]